On this Lord’s Day I’ve been up nursing a feverish baby around four this morning. It is barely seven (when writing this) and singing the beautiful tune of Pastor Jeff Pollard’s song he made for the word-for-word verses in Psalms 46 have been a comfort for our family and helped put Gabriel to sleep.

Yesterday Priscilla asked Tim when we were going to put our stuff back in our house in Pensacola again. It’s her first move that she can barely understand, and it’s hitting her hard with tears. This is a painful thing and first-time realization our children, like many military children, have to go through at this very young age. Please pray for her. We may have to buy little gifts again to make moving fun like we did when we moved from overseas.

The Lord is so good, and He knows what we need. Our schedule has changed a bit due to some unforeseen circumstances, but we’re trusting in Him.

We didn’t find out until it was really late on Thursday that we didn’t have enough room in our twenty-eight foot trailer and our U-Haul for all of our things. Praise God that the company we’re using had another trailer they could deliver yesterday evening, and, though pricey, was not as much as we feared it could be.

This. Our life might seem glamorous at times, but it’s hard. We’re looking forward to rest —- rest from packing, rest from setting up a new house, rest from the painful goodbyes. And this verse here — it’s just beautiful. Whether we’re worn out doing many things ourselves, healing from autoimmune issues, almost killed by a terrorist or dying of blood clots (twice), going into labor and naturally delivering an eighth sweet baby, in bed miscarrying at a friend’s home while on a trip, losing a dear mother to breast cancer, getting denied housing due to the number of children we have, or many other trials we face along the way in this journey of life, we cling to Him.

Oh, Heistheway! Happy 16th Birthday, dear daughter! We’ve showered you with blessings today — telling you how much and why we love you so much and reminiscing about many special memories including the days leading to your waterbirth at home. You’re a beautiful and amazing young woman with a heart whose love for God and others shines forth with compassion, grace, and beauty! You’ve made our lives richer in countless ways, and we’re thankful to the Lord that He chose us to be your parents and family.

On Facebook I shared a private July 16 memory and said, “It’s been an emotional day for us for various reasons, thinking of Mom’s death a year before this and then this day at Tim’s work at NOSC Chattanooga as CO that has changed so many people’s lives in Chattanooga forever.

July 4, 2019 - Standing as a Military familY with our hands over our hearts As our (American) flag is raised to our national anthem (the star spangled banner) near our home 🇺🇸 (Photo by: TIm & Franicia White)

Has it really been eight years since our last Guam baby was born at Sagua Managu birthing center? Daniel was born a few minutes into July 1st on Guam. We still laugh thinking that, when his stateside grandparents announced his birth, their church friends thought that they had the wrong date since it was still June 30th in the East Coast! Guam and the CNMI (Saipan, Tinian, and Rota) are known as the place where “America’s Day Begins.”

Last year I weighed 125 and right now I weigh about 150. The thing is, though, those numbers sound bad to some people, but, when I looked at some pictures and mostly my measurements, I realized that I am slimmer and fitter than when I weighed less. Muscle does weigh more than fat. 😍✨

Happy Father’s Day to the best dad my siblings and I could ask for! ❤️

Thank you for bringing us up in the Word of God and guarding our hearts! Thank you for being humble enough to admit your mistakes and asking for forgiveness, for working on being a better daddy all the time...

We had planned on making a short and quick announcement last week about our move, but got surprised with three days of our water shutting off due to little maintenance repairs service guys showed up to work on. We’re so thankful most of those repairs are done, but ...

17 years sounds like a long time. Tragically, the average length of marriages in the US is only 8.2 years according to census data. Woohoo! We have more than doubled the national average! (That’s actually sad to write — I wish that we were up to only ⅓ of the nation average. How wonderful would that be? May the Lord grant repentance and healing in our nation and society that marriages would be sacred and long-lasting!)

Do you have anyone in your life that you wish you could be more like? I sure do. There’s one particular person in my life that is so incredibly sweet and loving. They’re actually the sweetest, most-loving person I have ever known or even heard of.

Tim and Franicia

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